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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGEITON, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: The blade I bear / a myrtle spray shall wear
Last Line: Dealt death to tyranny / and liberated our athenian land
Subject(s): Death; "dead, The;
First Line: The blade I bear / a myrtle spray shall wear
Last Line: Dealt death to tyranny / and liberated our athenian land
Subject(s): Death; "dead, The;
The blade I bear
A myrtle spray shall wear;
Harmodius and Aristogeiton so
Enwreathed the brand
That laid the tyrant low
And liberated our Athenian land.
Not dead thou art,
Harmodius, dear heart,
But gone, men say, to islands of the blest, --
For all his speed
Achilles there finds rest,
And Tydeus' child, the gallant Diomede.
The blade I bear
A myrtle spray shall wear;
Harmodius and Aristogeiton drest
The brand even so,
When at Athena's feast
They laid Hipparchus, that great tyrant, low.
Dear hearts, your worth
Has deathless fame on earth, --
Harmodius and Aristogeiton, ye
Who blade in hand
Dealt death to tyranny
And liberated our Athenian land.
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